Liz Torres

Liz Torres

Birth : 1947-09-27, New York City, New York, USA

History

Spunky actress, singer and comedienne all rolled up into one, Puerto Rican-American Liz Torres was born in 1947, a native of the Bronx. She began her stand-up/singing career as a regular performing in various small NYC niteries. It wasn't until she received an invite to appear on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) that her comic career started blooming on TV and in film.

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Liz Torres
Liz Torres

Movies

My Mom and the Girl
Irlanda
After dinner with family and friends takes a dark turn, a woman with Alzheimer's is led to a proverbial crossroads where three very desperate women are unpredictably pulled back into the light.
Tab Hunter Confidential
Self
In the 1950s, Tab Hunter was number one at the box office and number one on the music charts and was Hollywood’s most sought-after young star. Natalie Wood, Debbie Reynolds and Sophia Loren were just a few of the actresses he was romantically linked to. He was America’s Boy Next Door and nothing, it seemed, could damage Tab Hunter’s career. Nothing, that is, except for the fact that Tab Hunter was secretly gay. Now, the secret is out.
Expecting Love
Juanita
A successful Los Angeles lawyer discovers that a short-term affair could have long-term consequences when a woman he had a brief affair with claims that she's currently pregnant with his unborn child.
Taylor
Teri Richards
Mystery woman arrives in small mountain hallmark type town to attend a memorial or perhaps just to find resolve in her own life. She stays at a bed and breakfast run by a recent widower and a relationship develops. Some towns people suspect a romance, others just want this mystery girl to go away for no apparent reason other than she is an outsider. The mystery unravels and the girl's presence is cloaked in a deeper need that she has. What is her connection to this town, these people?
Joe Dirt
Beauty College Woman
Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligerent, trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now, blasting Van Halen in his jacked-up economy car, the irrepressibly optimistic Joe hits the road alone in search of his folks.
Once Upon A Christmas
The Tooth Fairy
The daughter of Santa Claus vows to transform a single father and his spoiled children to prove that the spirit of Christmas exists.
The Princess and the Barrio Boy
Minerva's mother
A teenager who dreams of becoming an Olympic swimmer has a romance with a boy from the wrong side of town.
Permanent Midnight
Dita
Juggling increasing career success and a growing heroin habit, a television comedy writer attempts to go down a path of improvement.
Storm Chasers: Revenge of the Twister
Wallace Houston
Jamie Marshall (Kelly McGillis) is a "storm chaser" who, having lost her husband in a crash after his plane was struck by lightning, recklessly throws herself into her work. Sent by her boss to Colorado to investigate the cause of a devastating tornado, she meets Will Stanton (Wolf Larson), Field Coordinator for FEMA. One night, while working closely together examining the wreckage of the recent storm, Jamie and Will experience a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon - a ball of lightning falling from the sky connecting with the ground all around them. As Will tries to shield Jamie from the lightning, the two embrace and find themselves in a passionate kiss. The next day Jamie and Will return to the location. What they discover is a facility where waste from scientific experimentation is affecting the atmosphere causing the tornadoes. Armed with the new information and seven new tornadoes on the horizon, Jamie and Will prepare the already tornado ravaged town for another possible disaster!
The Odd Couple II
Maria
Brucey, the son of Oscar, calls his father to invite him to his wedding to Felix's daughter next Sunday in California. Oscar and Felix meet again at Los Angeles International Airport and rent a car in order to go to San Malina for the wedding.
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
Ruby Escadrillo
Gomez is a middle-aged man who dreams of buying a gorgeous white suit in a nearby store, but doesn't have enough cash. He finds 4 more people of same size, who each give $20 and get to wear the suit for an hour each in return. But the suit is not just a suit - it makes wishes of the one wearing it come true.
Just Cause
Delores Rodriguez
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women
Lenora's Mother
Spoof-miester, Julie Brown does a musical send-up of Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbit's debutante debacles
A Million to Juan
Mrs. Delgado
Romantic comedy about an honest Mexican immigrant who struggles without a green card by selling oranges on a street corner. One day a limousine pulls up and he is handed a check for $1,000,000 with instructions that he is to give the check back in 30 days. Initially he uses the check to convince people to extend credit to him. In the meantime he also attracts a woman who is in a dead end relationship with a bossy businessman. At the end of the 30 days, he finds his life in turmoil, the things he got on credit are repossessed, and he is being evicted from his dwelling and being sent back to Mexico.
Rescue Me
Carney
Fraser's unrequited love for the beautiful and rich Ginny gets a chance to prove itself, when she is suddenly kidnapped. He teams up with rebel Mac, who's got a score to settle with the kidnappers. Together they cross the country, looking for Ginny and the bad guys.
Bloodfist IV: Die Trying
Lt. Garcia
When Danny unknowingly repossesses the car of a powerful arms merchant, it sets off a chain of violent retaliation. After his friends are killed and his daughter is kidnapped, Danny takes matters into his own hands. It does not matter that the CIA and the FBI are also involved the Dragon's fire is in his fists!
Maid for Each Other
Lucy
In this hilarious crime caper, a rich woman (Nell Carter) and her maid (Dinah Manoff) happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time -- and now, they're hotfooting it away from vicious mobsters who want to fit them for a couple pairs of cement overshoes. Can they stay free -- and alive -- long enough to gather evidence against the mobsters?
Opposites Attract
A mayoral candidate (Barbara Eden) for a California town gets romantically involved with her opponent (John Forsythe), a former cowboy star.
Thieves of Fortune
Big Rosa
A beautiful woman must perform feats of bravery in order to inherit a $28 million fortune and win the man she loves.
Sweet 15
Nothing is more important to Mexican-American Marta Delacruz than her quinceanera -- the traditional 15th birthday celebration that symbolically ushers a young girl into adulthood. Marta is understandably angry and resentful when her father cancels the gala event, but her outlook changes completely when she accidentally uncovers her father's secret: He never became a U.S. citizen.
Lena's Holiday
Cabbie's Wife
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Lena, from East Germany travels to Hollywood. After landing she loses her bag and can't find her hotel. She befriends a cab driver who doesn't believe someone is out to get her.
Miracle at Beekman's Place
Isabella D'Agostino
Following a family tragedy, an idealistic hospital chief of staff dumps his high-paying job to open a storefront inner-city clinic.
Kate's Secret
Laura
A beautiful woman married to a successful lawyer and the perfect suburban mother turns out to be a closeted bulimic.
America
Dolores Frantico
The zany crew of a New York cable TV station accidentally bounce a signal off the moon, bringing them worldwide attention.
Father of Hell Town
Miss Morales
In this pilot to the short-lived "Hell Town," Robert Blake plays a scrappy, ex-convict-turned-ghetto priest in an impoverished inner-city parish.
Her Life as a Man
Susie
To land a sportswriting job on a national magazine run by a chauvinistic editor, an aspiring female reporter convincingly disguises herself as a man to get the inside story.
More Wild Wild West
Juanita
Robert Conrad and Ross Martin reprise their roles as Secret Service agents of the 1890s.
Murder Can Hurt You!
Mrs. Palumbo
A private eye spoof that sends up assorted TV detectives from Ironside, Columbo and Kojak to Baretta, McCloud and Starsky and Hutch, as eight bumbling super-sleuths band together in a battle of wits against the devilishly clever Master Criminal.
Scavenger Hunt
Lady Zero
An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of dollars - which will only be given to the person or team, amongst his family and hired help, who wins a madcap scavenger hunt.
Utterly Without Redeeming Social Value
Park Prostitute
A psychologist interviews the members of a therapy group for people with sexual issues as to why they're in the group.